Juvenal On Women
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- Created on: 16-04-14 08:10
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- Juvenal On Women
- Satire number six written in the 2nd century AD
- Dark humour, purpose is to ridicule, mock and shock
- characters and persona's hatred at exaggerated to create humour
- the persona is written to persuade a young man not to marry
- Eppia (not necessarily a real person)
- wife of the senator
- someone females look up to
- expected to be respectable
- she ran of with Pharos leaving behind her homeland, husband, sister and children
- contrasts to cloeilia who was seen as brave for running away
- she had every thing a roman women aspired to
- will create fear in male audience because if this women wasn't contempt how could they expect their own wives to be
- don't expect even a senators wife to be respectable
- she sailed with Pharos to Egypt
- when there is a good reason for going to sea women are fearful
- it is difficult to get them aboard, they can stand the bilge-water and they feel dizzy and they're sick over their husbands
- when there with a lover they feels at eased
- they will eat with the sailors. walk the quarter-deck and enjoy hauling the rough ropes
- when there is a good reason for going to sea women are fearful
- she is only attracted to Pharos's fame
- hes unattractive
- he had a scar on his face from his helmet
- a big wart between his nostrils
- smelly discharge dripping from his eye
- her attraction for his would fade because he had shaved his head because he was hoping he could retire from being a gladiator due to his wound on his arm
- hes unattractive
- wife of the senator
- Emperor Claudius's wife
- when he husband was asleep she would leave and go to a brothel to be a prostitute
- she would go with one female slave and she would disguise her black hair by wearing a yellow wig
- she took the name of Lycisca
- she would leave not satisfied
- she would come back climb into bed, with a 'dirty face... and the smell of the brothel'
- a sex manic who's name is not given because she's a respectable women
- she cared little for her fertility
- when he husband was asleep she would leave and go to a brothel to be a prostitute
- Juvenal questions whether in the 'large herd of women that's worth marrying'
- he criticises even the most respectful of women
- the Sabine women
- were already married and so weren't virgins
- he then contradicts himself by criticising Cornelia for being two virtuous because they become snobs
- the Sabine women
- suggesting they're all the same
- he criticises even the most respectful of women
- the mother in-law
- will ruin the marriage by making sure her daughter gets everything she can from her husband
- she encourages her daughter to have affairs
- writes on behalf of her seductively and with sophistication
- tricks or bribes the husbands spies
- call in a doctor so she can pretend she's unwell and sneak around with her lover
- the daughter wil use her mother as an example and help her daughter to be as equally unfaithful
- cause trouble
- all legal action can be tracked back to a woman
- this is a negative consequence of female education
- female athletes
- distracts them from their Roman Matron duties eg blowing the trumpet of Florida
- by being Athletic they're not being gentle and kind matrons
- she's denyng her sex by trying to exert male strength
- damaging their fertility
- reason for their behaviour
- before poverty made them chaste, hard working especially with their house keeping
- Rome us no longer at war so their no longer being controlled by a lack of money
- creates no guilt or deed for lust
- luxuries corrupt women
- educated females
- unbearable because they wont stop talking
- they disturb the men who actually know what there talking about
- they shouldn't understand philosophy, speaking and grammar or they will correct and embarrass him
- Birth control
- a lot of women are taken drugs to make them stertile or kill babies
- Juvenal is for it because he says if they were to have the child it would probably be an Ethiopians and you would be left embarrassed
- Satire number six written in the 2nd century AD
- suggesting they're all the same
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